Ernst Kapp

Ernst Kapp (1808-1896) was a German philosopher of technology and geographer.

Works

Philosophy of technology

• Grundlinien einer Philosophie der Technik. Zur Entstehungsgeschichte der Cultur aus neuen Gesichtspunkten [Fundamentals of a Philosophy of Technical Science], Braunschweig: George Westermann, 1877; repr. in Düsseldorf: Stern, 1978, with an Introduction by Hans-Martin Sass, ARG. Review. (German)
  • Elements of a Philosophy of Technology: On the Evolutionary History of Culture, eds. & intro. Jeffrey West Kirkwood and Leif Weatherby, afterw. Siegfried Zielinski, trans. Lauren K. Wolfe, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018, 336 pp. [1] (English)
  • "Selections from Elements of a Philosophy of Technology", trans. Lauren K. Wolfe, Grey Room 72, Summer 2018, pp 16-35, ARG. (English)

Literature

On Kapp's philosophy of technology

• H. van Riessen, Filosofie en techniek, Kampen, 1949. (Dutch)
• Hans-Martin Sass, "Man and His Environment: Ernst Kapp's Pioneering Experience and His Philosophy of Technology and Environment", in Essays from the Southwest Symposium 1978 - German Culture in Texas: A Free Earth, eds. Glen E. Lich and Dona B. Reeves, Boston: Twayne, 1980, pp 82-99.
• Harald Leinenbach, Die Körperlichkeit der Technik. Zur Organprojektionsthese Ernst Kapps, Essen, 1990. (German)
• Carl Mitcham, "Ernst Kapp and Technology as Organ Projection", in Mitcham, Thinking Through Technology: The Path Between Engineering and Philosophy, University Of Chicago Press, 1994, pp 20-24, PDF. [2]
• P. Fischer, "Zur Genealogie der Technikphilosophie", in Technikphilosophie, Leipzig, 1996, pp 255-335. (German)
• Philip Brey, "Technology as Extension of Human Faculties", in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Technology. Research in Philosophy and Technology, Vol 19, ed. C. Mitcham, London: Elsevier/JAI Press, 2000.
• Frits Simon, "Techniek als sleutel tot de werkelijkheid. Het laatromantisch optimisme van Ernst Kapp (1808-1896)", Filosofie (Jun/Jul 2001), pp 38-44; (Aug/Sep 2001), pp 32-38. (Dutch)
• Frits Simon, "Ernst Kapp (1808-1896): An early and Romantic philosopher of technology", c2003.
• Jeffrey West Kirkwood, Leif Weatherby, "Operations of Culture: Ernst Kapp's Philosophy of Technology", Grey Room 72, Summer 2018, pp 6-15.
• Harun Maye, Leander Scholz (eds.), Ernst Kapp und die Anthropologie der Medien, Berlin: Kadmos, 2019, 243 pp.

On Kapp

• Viktor Hantzsch, "Kapp, Ernst", in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) Band 51, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1906, pp 31-33 (German) [3]
• Terry G. Jordan, "Kapp, Ernst", in Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association, 2010.
• Kapp at German Wikipedia

Bibliography

• Bibliography on Ernst Kapp compiled by Frits Simon

Links

• Kapp at Wikipedia